Jacquard-card-stamping machine.



` PA'I'BNTEDDEG. 22, 1903. lW. W. HODGSON. JAGQUARD CARD STAMPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19.1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.4 v

'N0 MODEL.

VMI/:Bu:

'me' Nonius Pneus mouwof, wAsmNarougm cA No. 747,918. 1 AtrPNtm5Dma?.1903.V

W.- W..HoDGsoN. A JAGQUARD GARD STAMPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.. 19. 1903.

No MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Illl

E Nonnls Pzrzns w, PHoYo-LrtHu. wnsNmuTcN. D

il A` UNITED `SfmTES Patented December 22, 1903.

PATENT v OFFICE.

WALTER/W. HODGSON, OFl PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO WILLIAM E. BEATTYANDFRED SUTOLIFFE, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.y L

JACQUARD-CARD-STAM PING y MACHINE.

' ,SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.-747.9 18, dated December 22, 1903. I

imitation hemmt 19, 190s. serai No. 148,604. (Nomerie.)

.To atl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER WQHoDesoN,

a citizen of the United States,residihg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Jacquard-Card-Stamping Machines,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a machine for punching or stamping cards to be used in connec- Io tion with a jacquard-machine of the character set forth in an application for patentfiled.

a sectional plan view ofV suicientof a cardstamping machine to illustrate one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating another embodiment of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line c, a,Fig. 2. Fig. tis a view illustrating a still different embodiment of the invention. 3o Figs. 5 and 6 are views showing the variation in the punching required in cards intended, respectively, for the first-and second lift-s of the machine; and Figs. 7 and Bare views illustrating certain keys employed in connection with the machine shown in Fig. l.

The jacquardmachine forming the subject of my above-noted application for patent was what is known as a double-lift machine, in which byapeculiar combination 4o of griff-bars, hooks, needles, and harnesscords either a like or a different shedding of the warps could be effected on successive lifts of the machine and without intermediate change of card, like shedding being effected onsplits, and a reverse shedding on pairs. y Splits, as that terin is here used, refers to a combined blank and punched space comprising a pair in a row on the card, and

land cross each other.

pairs is a term referring to two blank go spaces or two punched spaces together. y

In order to adapt this machine for the use of cards operated in the ordinaryway-that .is to say, with a different card for each operation of the machinethe punching ofthe cards for the second lift will have to be dierent from the punching of the cards for the rst lift, said second-'lift cards being similar to the first on splits, but the reverse of the first yon pairs. -In order that these cardscan be 6o punched withoutthe necessity of the operator bearing this distinction in mind, and

ttherefore withoutthe close attention which I Vwould otherwise be necessary, I have devised Vthe card-punching machine shown in the 65 drawings. Thismachine is similar tothe ordinary card-punching machine, except in the relation to each other of the punches and the keys which control the operation of the same.

`Hence no general description of the card- 7o punching machine and its operationwill be necessary, and I-will therefore confine my description to thespecific novel relation of punches and keys. l

The ,machine has in front keys 1,2, 11, 12, and 13 to be operated bythe thumbs and at the rear keys 3 to 10, inclusive, to be operated bythe fingers, the keys 1 to12, inclusive, be-

ing those which control the punches whereby the rows of openings are formed in the card 8o for coperation with the needles of the jacyquard-machine and the key 13 controlling a special punch which forms the peg-hole at each end of the card in the usual manner.

The keys ofboth the front and rear portions 85 of the machine are arranged in lineal series Thus in the machine shown in Fig. 1 the keys are arranged in` pairs, one key crossing the other,the odd-nu mbered keys controlling the even-numbered 9o punches and the even-numbered keys controlling the odd-numbered punches. This machine is intended for producing a card for the second lift in a machine of the type shown in Fig. l of the drawings of my above-entitled v application,'the cards for the first lift being cut in the ordinary way.

In a jacquard-machine of the character referred to the warp-threads corresponding to the twelve spaces in a row on the card are drawn in through the reed in this order: l2 6, 115,104,93,82,71.

Fig. 5 represents the punching of the card for the first lift, and Fig. 6 the punching of the card for the second lift.

Reading from the right to the left in Fig. 5 it will be noted that the first of the spaces separated by the dotted lines is a split, the second a punched pair, the third and fourth splits, the fifth a punched pair, and the sixth a split and that in the card for the second lift the splits are similar to those for the first-lift card, and the pairs are reversed-that is to say, blank instead of punched.

In using the machine shown in Fig. l for the production of second-lift cards, Fig. 6, the pattern is read reversed. Hence key No. l would be read blank, thereby blanking space No. 2 on the card, and key No. 2 would be read punched, thereby punching space No. I on the card, While keys 3 and 4 wouid both be read blank, thereby blanking spaces 3 and l.Lon the second-lift card or reversing the cutting for the rst lift, these operations being repeated throughout the entire row, so as to reproduce in the second-lift card all of the splits of the first-lift card and reverse all of of the pairs of said first-lift card.

In preparing cards for use in connection with a machine of the character shown in Fig.

2of my former application, in which the pattern is repeated, I use a machine such as shown in Fig. 2 for producing the first-lift card and a machine such as shown in Fig. 4 for producing the second-lift card. In the machines shown in Figs. 2 and 4 all of the odd-numbered keys act upon punches on one side of the center of the head and all of the even-numbered keys act upon punches on the other side of said center. Thus, as shown in Fig. 2, all of the odd-numbered keys act upon punches on the right-hand side of the center and all of the even-numbered keys act upon punches on the left-hand side of the center, and in the machine shown in Fig. 4 this arrangement is reversed, the odd-numbered keys acting upon punches on the left-hand side of the center and the even-numbered keys acting upon punches on the right-hand side of the center.

In cutting the irst-lift card, Fig. 5, with the machine of Fig. 2 the pattern will be read straight, and in cutting the second-lift card with the machine of Fig. 4 the pattern will be read reversed, the result being the same as in the operation of the machine shown in Fig. l-that is to say, reproducing in the second-lift card all of the splits of the first-lift card and reversing all of the pairs of said firstlift card.

In order to permit the keys to cross one another, as is necessary when they are disposed in the manner described, I locate said keys in two planes one above the other and lengthen those punches which are acted upon by the keys of the upper plane correspondingly in respect to those which are acted upon by the keys of the lower plane, as shown in Fig. 3, the upper section of the stamping-head likewise having its bearing-face disposed in two planes, as illustrated, or in a machine of the character shown in Fig. l I can use a stamping-head havingits upper bearing-face in the saine horizontal plane and enlarge the ends of the keys which act upon the punches, the keys of the lower plane having lugs projecting upwardly, as shown in Fig. 7, and the keys of the upper plane having lugs projecting downwardly, as shown in Fig. 8.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A jacquard-card-stamping machine having the keys on the' front of the head arranged in lineal series and crossed so as to act upon the punches in an order diering from the order of arrangement of the keys.

2. A jacquard-card-stamping machine having the keys on both the front and rear faces of the head arranged in lineal series and crossed so as to act upon the punches in an order differing from the order of arrangement of the keys.

3. A jacquard card-stam ping machine having the keys disposed in pairs whose keys cross each other whereby each odd-numbered key will act upon an even-numbered punch and each even-numbered key will act upon an odd-numbered punch, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER W. HODGSON.

Witnesses:

F. E. BECHTOLD, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

